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Oh Deb, I have seen several pages of your journal on IG but to see all this... wow, it is just beautiful!... I love journaling as much as you do and wish mine looked like yours... are you watercoloring or colored pencils?... can you tell me how big it is?... I am going to look for a 2016 one on clearance and make one too... I have so many journals that fill so quickly... but am totally in love with this one of yours!... xoxo... Me

Lovely art journal and photos . I used to keep a journal years ago that I doodled and wrote in . This November here has been lovely I hope it lasts to not looking forward to the cold . Thanks for sharing , have a good week !

Nothing but love for this post. I really should try out the art journal. I love to scrapbook, and it's not so very different, just far more personal. The moon was so beautiful. It was so bright here, all but the strongest of stars were invisible. I loved walking through the moonlit path through the woods near my home that evening. It was so nice to visit you here this morning.Wishing you well,Andrea

I love the journal! A life well-lived makes a journal like that, stuffed with color and notes.

Love this quote too...

"I am thankful for a lawn that needs mowing, windows that need cleaning and gutters that need fixing because it means I have a Home ♥ I am thankful for the pile of laundry and ironing because it means my loved ones are nearby." ~Nancie J Carmody~

Julie Marie ~ thank you so much ♥It's 5" x 8" and I have used a little bit of everything from watercolours to pencils to acrylic paint that I wanted to finish on my palette after painting :-) I have glued and clipped and added washi tape ... little bits of everything xo

"Artists feel what they're carrying and feel it vividly. In order to make their art pulse, they must find their edges and soften there. Art {like love} was never about safety. To love an artist is to fall into a sea of deep, soulful, courageous, wild living" ~Victoria Erickson~

artists & musicians

"All musicians and artists - we all got quirks that have to be put up with at certain times" ~Dickey Betts~

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* I Believe*

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I have arrived. I am Home in the here in the now. I am solid. I am free. In the ultimate I dwell. ~Thich Nhat Hanh~

Home is the nicest word there is ♥~Laura Ingalls Wilder~

♥home♥

we're all just walking each other home ~Ram Dass~

you are ...

you are my ground and you are my rainbow. you are my butterfly and you are my ecstasy. you are the start of my journeys and always my destination. you are my HOME ~ the place to which i always return. ~Jonathan Lockwood Huie~

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My "Art Saves" story here...

♥ When Women Were Birds ♥

"Once upon a time, when women were birds, there was the simple understanding that to sing at dawn and to sing at dusk was to heal the world through joy. The birds still remember what we have forgotten. That the world is meant to be celebrated" ~Terry Tempest Williams~

Finding beauty in Everyday life ♥

~for the sparrows~

I would daily throw out crumbs for the sparrows in the neighbourhood. I noticed tht one sparrow was injured, so that it had difficulty getting about. But I was interested to discover that the other sparrows, apparenty by mutual agreement, would leave the crumbs which lay nearest their crippled comrade, so that he could get his share, undisturbed. ~Dr. Albert Schweitzer~

Gather what you love ...

Our lives are spent gathering what we love ... we call that place hOMe ♥

Rain ...

Who loves the rain and loves his home and looks on life with quiet eyes ~Frances Shaw~

~Sparrows Garden~

In my garden there is a large place for sentiment. My garden of flowers is also my garden of thoughts and dreams. The thoughts grow as freely as the flowers, and the dreams are as beautiful. ~Abram L. Urban~

Once Upon A Nest ...

This is the place that I love the best, a little brown house like a ground ~ birds nest, hid among grasses, and vines, and trees, summer retreat of the birds and bees ~Ella Wheeler Wilcox~

Sparrow Sentiments ...

I once had a Sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn. ~Henry David Thoreau~

Eyes of Wonder

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary ~Pablo Picasso~

About Me

Little observations from a girl who
loves Home ♥ Where I write about the everyday things ~ the lovely-ness of daily-ness, creating in Sparrow Studio,time spent in the garden, garage sale finds, recipes, walks, favourite quotes ... all the little things that make life lovely ♥

Thank You ...

Established September 28, 2006

HOME is oneness, HOME is my original NATURE. It is right here, simply in what is. There is nowhere else I have to go, and nothing else I have to become. ~Tony Parsons~

If what I say resonates with you, it is merely because we are both branches on the same tree ~W.B.Yeats~

You've Got Mail ...

Thank you for stopping by. I appreciate each & every one of your lovely comments ♥

A house is a homewhen it shelters the bodyand comforts the soul~Phillip Moffitt~

I suppose I am a Sparrow, a stay-at-home bird. ~Gladys Taber~

Our house was not unsentient matter - it had a heart and a soul, and eyes to see with; and approvals and solicitudes and deep sympathies; it was of us, and we were in its confidence and lived in its grace and in the peace of its benedictions. We never came home from an absence that its face did not light up and speak out in eloquent welcome - and we could not enter it unmoved. ~Samuel Clemens~